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Teach Emotional Essential Life Skills Utilizing Gale In Context: Elementary

Gale In Context: Elementary provides you and your student with K5 focused content to support essential life skills including communication, perspective-taking, and emotional intelligence. Specially designed topic pages help focus students on specific topics and promote organized research, while more advanced tools make it simple for teachers to surface content for many lesson types. Join this session to learn how you can incorporate Gale In Context: Elementary into your Essential Life Skills or Social Emotional Learning lessons.

Duration: Under 15 Minutes
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Thank you again everyone for being on the line

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today. Today, we're talking about teaching

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emotional essential life skills with

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Gale in Context Elementary. My

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name is Amber Winters and I am your

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Gale training consultant for the day.

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I have a quick agenda here. So first I just

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want to briefly go over what Gall and Context

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Elementary is to make sure we're all on the same

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page.

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We're going to walk through the content for the majority

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of our time today though. So we're going to see where

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we can find this great social, emotional

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learning and life skills content.

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We're going to talk about how you can utilize

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that content. So some different strategies

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when we're talking about the different content types

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or the different tools within the resource, how you can

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utilize those and leverage them in your classroom,

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we're going to talk about some support materials just

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to give you some extra inspiration. So

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if you are planning on getting this information

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out to your students, we have a lot of

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premade material that can help you out with that.

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And then at the end of the session, we should have

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time for any questions, but feel free to put them

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into the Q and A. As we move along

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today, I should be able to answer them kind

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of throughout the session. You shouldn't have to wait until the very end.

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And then I have some wrap up contact information

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for you at the very end as well.

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So let's go ahead and just jump right in here. So, first

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off Galen context elementary, if

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you're new to it, if it's been a while is

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you're going to be your resource for your K five

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students. And it

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includes quite a wide variety of content

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everywhere from reference works

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which we call book articles and ga context

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elementary to make them a little bit more inviting

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to newspapers and magazines. We have a great

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set of images and video files

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as well as different biographies and things like that.

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And this is cross curricular. So today, of course,

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we're focused on that social emotional learning

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kind of section of the resource.

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You will find information on science,

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social studies

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English

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people, the world. It's

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very, very cross curricular, art and music.

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You'll find quite a bit of content for that as

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well. And within this platform, we

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do have both search and browse capabilities.

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We're going to spend our time browsing

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today. So you can see how easy it is to

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really point and click down to the information that you

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need, but we do have both

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and our content we're going to take a look at today are

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going to be great for Bell Ringers

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for station learning. If you're planning on setting

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up stations, it's great to

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either print off of this resource or

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to just have this resource set open

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in a station for students. It's really easy for them

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to navigate independently.

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Also, of course, as you could imagine,

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great for project research. That's a lot

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of times what we think of when we think about this resource.

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But there's so much more than just project

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research, also great for group discussions

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and things like that.

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It especially comes in handy if you have this

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link to a learning management system

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or if you have access to Google, Google

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classroom, you can actually send content

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directly from this platform to wherever

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you're instructing your students. So

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that just gives you another layer of connectivity

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with this resource, you'll really be able to get

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it into the, the hands of your students really

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simply.

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So again, today, we're talking about the different

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emotional and social essential

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life skills that we want to teach

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our students. So we're going to be

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using the topic tree navigation today

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when we do jump into the resource and

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this is going to move students forward

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just point, see a clicking. So this is really great.

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Again, if you're maybe having them work independently

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or if they're working at home and you want them to access

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this content, you don't need to worry about them

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building their own search terms, which they may not

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be ready for just yet. They can point

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and click and narrow it down to exactly what they're looking

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for. Specifically

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when we're talking about our emotional and

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social learning information that's

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all found within our health topic. We've kind

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of included all of that there. So not

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only personal health, so physical and mental,

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but also relationship health. We've kind of all

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included that right into our health category

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and that is found right on the home page. So your

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students will be able to immediately see where they need

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to click into.

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And once they do click into that health topic, you'll see,

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we've added another layer of

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point and click selection to

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our topic trees where they're going to be able to narrow down

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even further. So they're in this health

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section, but maybe they want to learn about getting

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along with each other or maybe they're more

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concerned about their emotions and kind of how

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they're feeling internally.

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They'll be able to find all of that content and

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you'll be able to find all of that content right?

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In this really simple and easy to navigate

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topic tree

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and each of these topics are broken down into

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topic pages as well. We'll take a look at

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that in the resource. They really organize

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everything we have available for students. They're going to get

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a nice topic overview. If we have

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book articles, they'll see those, they'll see images,

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they'll see related topics. It's

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a really nice one stop shop

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for whatever you're planning on doing in your classroom.

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So let's go and take a look. Let's see how we can

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use this content, how we can find it.

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All that good stuff. I haven't seen questions

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pop up here

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um in the Q and A but I will

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pass for just one second here. Are there any questions

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about just that very brief overview

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we just touched on?

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OK, I don't see any. So let's go ahead

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and get started then. So this is our Gain Context

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elementary home page. I'm

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sure most of you are already familiar.

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So go ahead, let's go ahead and scroll down here.

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And as I mentioned, we're stopping to today, we're starting

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today at our health section. That's where we're going to

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find all of that social and emotional

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learning content.

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So when I click into health here,

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I'm just taking to my second level of my topic

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tree. So again, we saw this on my slide.

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This is giving me more options to see exactly

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what I'm looking for.

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So let's today. Um Let's worry about

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getting along with others. Maybe that's our, you know, that we're

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starting here.

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So once I jump down to that next level of

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content now is we're going to find

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some really specific topics here.

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You'll see things like body language, bullying,

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different relationships that we're talking

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about to understanding others. But what

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I want to point out on this page

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is this, I wonder question down

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here at the bottom. These are really

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excellent for Bell Ringers.

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You can either copy this question and, you know, post

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it yourself or you can have your students

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pull up the resource on

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their computers or their desks and they can

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take a look at this, I wonder they can write out their

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answer

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and they can hit this find out. So maybe

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they want to answer first or maybe they want to find

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out first. But when they select, find

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out it pulls them

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forward to this page, whatever page is related

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to the question

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and they'll be able to read through and

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answer that question.

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So a really simple way to get them engaged

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with the content. It's right there

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on the bottom of that page for them

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and it does change periodically. So I

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do suggest um having all

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of your students sign in at the same time and taking

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a look at the same time. I think it's especially

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helpful just to have it on your front board.

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So you have your smart board, you're projecting

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to whatever you're projecting to have this

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pulled up and your students will be able to answer

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and you can even find out together what's

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what different answers are available for them.

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Well, let's go ahead and click into one of these topics

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here. We'll work as a team

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today. That's always a, a

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difficult seat when

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we're talking about elementary kiddos is getting

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them to start working in healthy teams.

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So here we are, this is

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our topic page. So I want

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to mention that I can actually get a link directly

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to this topic page. I can actually

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get a link to any page within this resource.

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So if I want to just

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start students off on their learning on this

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page, maybe I don't want them clicking all the way through

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the resource. I know what content I content

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I want them to see and I want them to get there quickly.

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I can use this, get link of top here,

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my toolbar

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and I can get a persistent URL to this page.

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So I can really easily copy and paste

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this maybe in a discussion board,

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maybe on a syllabus. If you're going to have

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students utilizing this in a project,

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I could even, you know, send it out to parents.

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Maybe I want parents to take a look at this page

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and help their students at home.

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I can use this, get link and get a link to any page.

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So back me up just quickly if I decided,

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um I wanted to jump back to this option

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here. I wanted them to see all of the different topics

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related to getting along with others.

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I can be on this page again,

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use that link in the same spot.

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I know they can be bumped here

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and this may be great if you want students to find their

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own topic.

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So if you want them to start exploring on their own, maybe they're going

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to be working in groups, each group is going to

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take an individual topic and

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then they're going to come together and share out after

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or again. If you're planning on doing something like

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stations, you can have this pulled forward

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just again, a really nice way to get this content

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out to your students. But let's stick with

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working as a team here.

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So just briefly this topic page, I'm gonna

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point out some of the key features before we jump

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right in here. So you'll see, we get some quick

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facts about whatever topic we're looking

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at. And then underneath, we see all of the

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different content types that are related

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to this specific topic here.

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So you'll see, we have our book articles, those are

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reference works. So shorter reference pieces,

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we call them book articles just to make it a little more inviting

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if your learning

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community has access to Gale ebooks

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and you have elementary leveled ebooks.

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Those will also appear here as well.

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So you'll see, I have a few ebooks that are

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attached to my Gale Ebooks account that

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are going to populate here for me as well. So I can

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actually log into a full ebook right from

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Gale and Context Elementary.

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You'll see. We've got some pictures, we have a nice

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video about supporting each other. So

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you will find some social emotional

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learning video content here as well.

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If I click into this here, I'm just going to

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pause it and we're not going to play through it.

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But you'll see, this is a short one, this is a minute

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and 25 seconds. So a really nice

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quick way to get some information over to

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students again. And a really nice

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bell ringer just to play this nice

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short video and have students maybe answer some questions

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that you have assigned to them.

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You'll see underneath the video itself. We do

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include um the full

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transcript here. So if students need the transcript,

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we have that we also have closed captioning

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on all of our videos here as well.

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So let's go ahead and jump back

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at the very bottom of these topic pages. We also

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include related topics. So if your

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students are working independently and you want

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them to kind of continue learning on their own,

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this related topics may be a good place

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for them to go as well. So they kind of understand

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working as a team now.

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So maybe they also want to consider um avoiding

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conflict, obviously, that's directly related

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to working in a team. So maybe they want to jump to that

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topic now.

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But let me scroll up here. I'm just going to hit

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keep reading, which is going to launch me into this

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overview. It's going to pull forward the full text

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and let's talk just a little bit on how we can use

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an article within our classrooms here.

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So I do want to show you a few different ways to

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really make this content as accessible

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as possible for students before we talk about

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some teaching strategies.

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So if you have students who need

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excuse me,

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um some additional support with their reading,

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we have the ability to increase

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and decrease the font size here. Scroll

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down, you can see that

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we also have the option to translate this

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article.

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So a lot of schools of course, have

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a, a large Spanish speaking

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population, you can translate

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this to Spanish. I know a lot of places

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I'm located in Michigan. So a lot of places

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especially in Southeast Michigan

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have a large student population who speaks Arabic.

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So you can also translate to Arabic and

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you'll see quite a few different language options

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here as well.

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So you can if you decide maybe to print

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out this article for your students,

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you could translate and maybe print some in Spanish,

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maybe print them in English. You'll have that

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capability here on the platform.

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We also have these great display options here.

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So again, if you have students who need

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special support as they're reading, maybe

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they need a background color to help them out.

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Maybe they want a different font. You'll see, we do have

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a dyslexia font. So if you're working with dyslexic

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students or just students who have trouble

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reading in general, this font may be helpful

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for them

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and then you'll see if we can change the line letter word spacing.

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So this is really nice to kind of prep before

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you work with your students. You'll see now it's quite

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a bit different than when it started off as

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so this is great to prep before you even

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get started. So, you know, your students, best

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of course, if you're working with a group

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of students who are maybe struggling readers,

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you may want to have all of this accessibility

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feature turned on and ready to go for them before

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you even start reading and, and have it ready.

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I'm gonna turn it all off for today

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back to my default settings

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and these

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accessibility tools,

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sorry if I'm trying, I thought there these accessibility

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tools do follow along as you move

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forward through the session. So

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if you're having students maybe read more than one

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article. Once you have your parameters

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set, you have all your features set, it will follow

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along for them.

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So another accessibility feature I want

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to point out is our leveling options

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you'll see at the very top of my page here.

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I have the option to view a level one or

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level two version of this

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document. If I click into level one,

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oops, looks like it signed me out

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because I left it sitting

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in my browser here. There we go. So

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I started off here and I just selected level

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one here on the left hand side. It's

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going to pull forward a lower level of content

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and our levels

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are a stick with level two.

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Um Our levels are based

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on Lexa Ranges. So if you want to see the actual

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lea of a document that you're planning on working on

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with students,

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you can go to this little article info button

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in this right hand corner here

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and it gives you the flex measure dropdown. So

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you'll see you have two different options for this article.

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Of course, one is at that higher level and one is at

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that lower, you can toggle here as well.

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So again, if you're trying to differentiate, maybe you do

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have stations set up and you want some stations

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to read the lower level of content. And

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maybe you have some students who are excelling who

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are may be ready to take a look at the higher level of content.

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You can differentiate which students see what

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piece of content and they're going to get the same information

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just in a few different methods. So I

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think this is a really nice feature for you as Well,

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if you are working with a pretty diverse

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group of students, we are trying to help

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you here to have some different reading

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levels.

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But now let's

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go ahead and take a look at this article here. So let me spur it onto

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the actual text. I will point out you'll see. Sometimes

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we have things like words to know, you

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may want to bring to your students attention.

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You see down here, we have an activity

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available here as well.

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If I go into my level two,

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they'll most likely be slightly different. You'll see this has

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main ideas,

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this one has another activity, but it's a little bit

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more advanced activities. So

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these are often times helpful for you. So

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if you're looking for a quick, you know,

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quick activity to run in your class,

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I recommend clicking into some of our articles. A lot

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of times you will find we call them

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sidebars even though they're in the middle of the page.

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you may find activities, you also might

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find things like critical thinking questions that you can

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post to your students. So you find

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a lot of

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activity work kind of embedded within

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our articles. But what I want to talk

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about is close reading.

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We actually have a, a great feature, our highlights

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and notes feature that make it really helpful

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if you're planning on close reading as a group.

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So what we've seen a lot of educators do is

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pull up whatever article they want to read with their

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students. And of course they can pull it up

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on their smart board or whatever projector

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they're using. Or of course they can have students pull

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it up individually.

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I think it's most beneficial to pull it up on

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the smart board and then work together. So you'll

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start to read through this article

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and you can ask students, let me know when you think

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a piece of content or when you

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think a sentence is really important and we're

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going to highlight it

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so we can run through. And you know, Timmy

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told me that this sentence was really

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helpful. So we're gonna highlight

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that in purple

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as you're reading through. Maybe Mary says,

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wow, this, this sentence is really,

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really important to what we're reading. This is giving us

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maybe the the main points of this

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page, we can highlight that again,

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maybe I have another student who's saying, I don't

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really understand what the sentence is.

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So maybe that's going to be highlighted in yellow

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and we can come back and kind of kind

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of dig deeper into this sentence to see

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exactly what it means. So this is a really

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nice way to get students engaged in the

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text instead of just reading through it, they're

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going through their highlighting the key points.

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Maybe they're highlighting things they don't quite understand.

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And again, this can be done together as a large

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group where the teacher is herself

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is highlighting the bit of information

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that students point out or it can be done

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individually

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and students can have to point it out on their own.

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And if we are using this method where we're highlighting

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and kind of keeping this information, may

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we may want to keep those for later or maybe

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students will be turning that into you.

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So we have a few different collaborative tools that

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may be helpful. So you can actually send

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this over to Google classroom. You'll see my Google

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classroom icon up top here.

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So if you want to send all the information that way,

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I'm not signed in, so I won't sign in today.

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But you see it pops up into this little

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window, you'll be able to create an

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assignment, ask a question. Anything

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you would be able to do within the native Google

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classroom interface and you'll be able to post

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it or you can

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choose you or your students can choose

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to send over to a Google drive or

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a one drive and sending over to these drives does

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keep the highlights along with the article.

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So if you do assign students to

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maybe highlighting the key points of an article

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or highlighting the things that can, they confuse

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them that they found most interesting,

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you can have them send it over to a drive or

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you can have it, you can have them email it to

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you. If you have your email address

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handy, you prefer that

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it does again keep those highlights

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and they can send that over to you.

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This can also be downloaded or printed.

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So again, if you prefer to have a hard copy,

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you have that ability here.

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But it's a really nice way to keep this.

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So once we have all of this set, we

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do kind of aggregate all of our highlights

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and notes together on one page as well.

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So if you want to take a look at that as a class,

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we have them nice and neatly organized in a chart.

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If you click into our highlights and notes option here,

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you'll see what I have highlighted, but I'm going to hit

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you all

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and now we'll see the different sentences we have highlighted.

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We'll see there are different highlight colors and we

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can add notes here.

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This is a great way just to have students

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kind of see the overall view

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of an article. This is really nice. If you want

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to help students learn how to summarize

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information, you can tell them, you know, highlights

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the pieces of this text that are most important

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that are going to give someone who's not

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reading the actual text and understanding of

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what it's saying. So they can highlight,

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pull forward into this highlights and notes

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option and they'll be able to

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just read what they highlighted to see if it

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really does make sense to see if they really

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did summarize the text,

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you'll see they can label their highlights as well.

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So if they want to label these maybe

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you'll see, I have a few different labels they've already used.

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maybe they highlighted the introduction

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of something. They can choose the highlights

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and list that here. Um Again, if they

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may be confused about something,

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they can just note that here. And again,

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they can save this for themselves.

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They can choose to send this over somewhere if

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they want to send it to their drives or if maybe they want

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to email it to you,

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they can download or they can print right here as

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well. So this is another great way to

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just have them kind of talk to the text

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and pull it apart and really understand

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what exactly it's trying to say

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and then clicking into it. They can easily get

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right back here

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to this main page and make edits. However

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they want to do that.

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I want to jump back into my presentation

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slides because of a few different bits

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of inspiration for activities that I hope

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will help you get this content to

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your students. So do you have any questions

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just about the content we took a look at or

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a few of those different tools we explored?

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OK. I don't see any. So I quickly

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want to mention we have a lot of pre

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creative activities already found

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on our support site, which is support.gale.com

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And while a lot of these activities aren't specifically

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focused on social and emotional learning,

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they give you kind of a great template if you want

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to get your students involved using that kind

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of option. So the

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first we have is a scavenger hunt. We have

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a huge collection of scavenger hunts.

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but these are great teams just to start up

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as well. So if you want to have a scavenger hunt, maybe

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about emotions or something like that,

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you go ahead and edit this to include just content

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related to emotions.

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Another great way to get this content into your

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classroom is using an escape room and

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we do have a full blank escape

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room on our support site for you. So

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again, as you look for this specific

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content you want, maybe it is working with the

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team, maybe it's conflict resolution.

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Maybe it's perspective taking,

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you can build a full escape room around

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that using the template we already have created on

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the support site. So no reinventing

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the wheel for you.

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You also might want to consider trading cards.

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We use those for a lot of different

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topics within the resource. So you'll

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see this one here. I pulled forward is just for solar

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systems, but it could also be great for

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emotions, you know, anger, sadness,

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happiness, excitement.

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And then on the back, you'll have them fill out

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whatever information you want them to fill out.

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When do people feel angry? How do people

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express their anger?

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And it's also a great idea to have them cite

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their sources on the backs of these

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trading cards as well. Within

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the resource, we actually have a citation tool

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where students could just click and get that citation

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create, created for them.

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It's an excellent way to have them practice citing

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sources.

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So nice, simple trading cards

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and we also have things you'll see. This one here is

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focused specifically on bullying. So this

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one is kind of pulling forward that social

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emotional learning, those life skills.

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This one's in just an article

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article report like a book report,

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they find an article within Galan context elementary

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that's about bullying

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and then they read through the article, they

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go over the why of the article, the

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what did you learn? Reflections? And

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then you see this one also has a class presentation

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set up as well.

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So these are just a few different ways that you can kind

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of get in contact elementary

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into your classroom. Instead of just

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focusing on research projects.

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Of course, we want your students to

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use this for their research. Always, always.

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But it also offers quite

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a few different activity options to really

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engage students electronically

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as opposed to strictly

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on paper. So

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quite a few different new options for you

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to take a look at there

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and that's what I have for you today. We do have

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a few minutes left. So I would love to answer questions,

[00:23:04.430]
that anyone may have left over again.

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If you're looking for some more specific

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activity suggestions, we do have

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our support site where you can find those. So

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if you want to pull that, blank

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escape room, if you're planning and running in emotions,

[00:23:18.144]
escape room or a teamwork escape room,

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you'll find that on our support site as well as

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scavenger hunts. all that good

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stuff, support.gale.com

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I definitely recommend taking a look

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if you do have the time.

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If you have more questions about this or maybe

[00:23:33.827]
about Gale and contact elementary, just

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in general, you can reach out to your customer

[00:23:38.288]
success manager. If you don't know who it is,

[00:23:40.650]
just send an email to [email protected]

[00:23:42.890]
and they can help you

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out. They can also work with you

[00:23:47.009]
to take a look at the support site. If you want to take a look

[00:23:49.180]
at the materials we have available, to

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really integrate this into your lessons.

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You can certainly do that

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if you don't have access to Gale and Context

[00:23:57.327]
elementary right now, but you're interested, reach

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out to your sales consultant. If you don't know

[00:24:01.587]
who they are, you can send I'm sorry,

[00:24:03.630]
you can go to support.gale.com/repfinder

[00:24:05.788]
and you'll be

[00:24:07.808]
forwarded to the correct individual and you can talk about

[00:24:10.009]
this resource with them, or maybe talk

[00:24:12.140]
about your gale ebooks and how you can get those integrated

[00:24:14.597]
within gale and context elementary.

[00:24:17.798]
And finally, I do have a quick session survey

[00:24:20.160]
here. If you have the time to take it, I have a QR

[00:24:22.500]
code posted. It's also going

[00:24:24.538]
to pop up in your browser once we're done here for

[00:24:26.680]
the day. But I would love for you to take that

[00:24:28.817]
just so we can make sure that we're always

[00:24:31.038]
kind of hitting what you're looking for

[00:24:33.117]
when you join these sessions. We want to make sure

[00:24:35.269]
that you're getting the content that you need.
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